Potatoes Romanoff

Raise your hand if you order steakhouse potatoes whenever you order the steak! In my family, we all love loaded baked potatoes. There’s nothing like opening a steamy baked potato, fluffing it, and just watching the sour cream, cheese, and butter melt inside the soft flesh.

How To Make Potatoes Romanoff?

1. In the morning or the night before you wish to serve this dish, wash, dry, and wrap each potato in aluminum foil. Make some holes in them using the tip of a sharp knife or a fork. Bake them in a 400 F oven for one hour or until they feel tender when poked with a knife. Let them cool and refrigerate for 8 hours or overnight.
2. Preheat the oven to 425 F. Using a cheese grater, shred the very cold potatoes, skin, and all.
3. Mix in the very finely minced shallot, garlic powder, salt, and pepper using two forks. Do not overmix. You never want to mash the potatoes.
4. Add the two cheeses, mixing them in with the two forks.
5. Pour in the room-temperature sour cream (you don’t want it to be too hard) and mix in using the two-fork technique again.
6. Place the potatoes in a greased baking dish. Place them carefully, piling them high. Don’t mash them down. Bake for 30-35 mins or until the tops are brown.

Freeze and Reheat Potatoes

If you want to freeze Potatoes Romanoff, let them cool completely, place them carefully in an airtight container and freeze them for up to 4 months.

To reheat, let them thaw overnight in the fridge, place them in a baking dish and bake in a 400 F oven for 10-15 mins or until heated through.

Side dishes are last on my list, so I love to have some in the freezer for those days when I don’t have to cook. The Homemade Scalloped Potatoes, Mashed Potato Cups Recipe,  and Loaded Mashed Potato Bites Recipe are great to have around for those days!

Cooking Tips

1. Do not grate room-temperature potatoes. They have to be cold, or else they will mash.
2. Don’t use the grater. Use the shredder part of the cheese grater. Otherwise, you will make mashed potatoes.
3. When mixing all the ingredients in, do not overmix. Use two forks to fluff the shredded potatoes and gently mix in the elements.
4. I wouldn’t recommend adding cheese on top. They have enough cheese mixed in, and you couldn’t accomplish the beautiful browning on the top.